The big screen : the story of the movies / David Thomson.

"The Big Screen" tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertaining but no longer lays claim to our lives the way it once did.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomson, David, 1941-
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Physical Description:viii, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles, photographs, frontispiece ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Story of the movies.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Let there be light
  • The shining light and the huddled masses. A cheap form of amusement
  • The era of sunrise
  • The cinema of winter
  • M
  • Stat film, film state
  • The extraordinary adventures of Mr. Bolshevik in the West
  • 1930s Hollywood
  • France
  • Renoir
  • American
  • Ambersons
  • Howard Hawks : the "Slim" years
  • Films were started
  • Brief encounter
  • War
  • Italian cinema
  • Ingrid sees a movie
  • Sing a noir song
  • Sunset and change
  • Film studies
  • Dread and desire. Dread and desire
  • To own the summer
  • Brave new northern California world
  • What is a director?
  • Silence of Sinatra?
  • The numbers and the numbness
  • I wake up screaming.